To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and ...
 Amazon.com Review: The Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 might have signaled the end of slavery, but the beginning of freedom remained far out of sight for most of the four million enslaved African Americans living in the South. Even after the Civil War, [... more]
$20.50
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Woman of Valor: Clara Barton and the Civil War
Educational and Entertaining to read. A must have book!: Mr. Oates has done it again. You will know Clara Barton ambitions, downfalls, her emotions as well as her eager drive and personal duty to serve those who suffered so much during the Civil War [... more]
$23.95
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Penguin Classics)
Very Valuable: I am a slow to moderate reader, but read this in 3 days. Jacobs compiled something of which I did know existed, a real first hand account of slavery. She depicts the plight of her life in North Carolina, and also that of fellow slaves. The [... more]
$12.00
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Intimate Strategies of the Civil War: Military ...
very insightful: Carol Bleser and Lesley Gordon did a wonderful job with this book,delving into the personal lives of several famous civil war figures, along with black and white photographs of the couples.Some of the marriages in the book include the [... more]
$60.00
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The House of Bondage: Or Charlotte Brooks and Other ...
A book to be passed down from generation to generation...: Narrated by Octavia Albert, this book documents the true stories of several former slaves, their personal views, their struggles, and their triumphs. The stories are heartfelt and the convictions [... more]
$34.99
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The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for ...
Recommended read: I read an earlier (1970-something?) publication of this work, and really enjoyed it. The sisters were presented as powerful thinkers who struggled with the issues of their day. The title is right on, they were pioneers for women's [... more]
$34.00
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Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth ...
A Van Lew relative's review: . I am the great-great grandson of Elizabeth's brother, discussed extensively in the book. Ms. Varon has admirably fleshed out with documented sources many of the accounts passed down through our family. She has (thankfully) [... more]
$35.00
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An Uncommon Soldier: The Civil War Letters of Sarah ...
An uncommon soldier, an extraordinary book: "An Uncommon Soldier: The Civil War Letters of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, alias Pvt. Lyons Wakeman, 153d Regiment, New York State Volunteers, 1862-1864" is edited by Lauren Cook Burgess and contains a [... more]
$14.95
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Fanny Kemble's Civil Wars
A Not-So-Unlikely Abolitionist: In 1836, just two years after famed British actress Fanny Kemble married Pierce Butler, he inherited the second largest plantation in Georgia. Her memoir of planter-society life, published in 1863 as Journal of a Residence [... more]
$24.99
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Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four ...
Not What You'd Expect, But Read It As If You Lived 138 Years Ago: In 1868, three years after the War Between the States ended and Abraham Lincoln was murdered, Elizabeth Keckley sat down to write a partial history of her life as a slave and modiste ( [... more]
$24.99
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The Private Mary Chesnut: The Unpublished Civil War ...
America's Own Pepys: This is the one indispensible book for anyone interested in what went on in the South behind the battle lines. As Pepys gives us a living picture of the London and court of Charles II, so does M. Chesnut give us a bird's eye view of [... more]
$39.99
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Disarming the Nation: Women's Writing and the American ...
Author: Elizabeth Young Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 810.9358 EAN: 9780226960883 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0226960889 Number Of Pages: 405 Publication Date: 1999-12-15 [... more]
$22.00
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